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Cold beer and apple soup

Cold beer and apple soup

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A German-style wheat beer soup, with sweet apples, cinnamon, and lemon, briefly simmered and then served very cold. Fruity and light.

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Beer soups were once a common breakfast in rural Germany. This fruity version, with apples, is served cold.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time20 min
  • Cook time10 min
  • Resting2 hr
  • Total2 hr 30 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • CostBudget
  • Calories287 kcal/serving
  • Cooking methodnibbling
  • Estimated cost$4.74 $1.19 / serving Estimated price; varies by store. Converted from euros at the ECB rate of October 7, 2026.
  • Vegetarian
  • Vegan

Ingredients

4 people
  • $2.58
  • $1.74
  • $0.08
  • $0.06
  • $0.28

Prices from US supermarkets for 2 of 5 ingredients; Belgian prices for the rest.

Directions

  1. Squeeze the lemon. ≈ 3 min
  2. Peel the apples, remove the core, cut them into small pieces, and toss them with a little lemon juice. ≈ 8 min
  3. Bring all ingredients to a boil, except the apples and lemon juice. Add the apples, bring to a boil once, then remove from the heat.
  4. Refrigerate the soup and adjust the seasoning with lemon juice.
  5. Remove the spices and serve cold. ≈ 2 min

The bill

Cold beer and apple soup

  • 1 liter of wheat beer$2.58
  • 5 sweet apples$1.74
  • 70 grams of sugar$0.08
  • 10 g of vanilla sugar (1 sachet)$0.06
  • 1 organic lemon$0.28

Total$4.74

that's $1.19 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

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Nutrition per serving

Calories287 kcal
Fat0.6 g
Saturated fat0.1 g
Carbohydrates51.3 g
Sugars40.6 g
Fiber2.8 g
Protein1.6 g
Salt0.04 g

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 1 liter of wheat beer
  • 5 sweet apples
  • 70 grams of sugar
  • 10 g of vanilla sugar (1 sachet)
  • 1 organic lemon
  • 1 clove or 1 star anise
  • 1 small cinnamon stick

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